DAY 1 - WED, OCT 4th

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10:00-11:00 // Keynote Speaker

  • Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III - President Emeritus of University of Maryland, Baltimore County

11:00-11:15 // Welcome Address

  • Darin Latimore, MD (ISFS Senior Advisor Deputy Dean and Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Title IX Deputy Coordinator for the Office of the Dean in the School of Medicine; Discrimination and Harassment Coordinator for the Office of the President, Yale School of Medicine)

  • Dean Nancy Brown, MD (Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of the Yale School of Medicine; C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine)

11:15-12:45 // Fellows Science Session 1: Aging

  • Chinyere Agbaegbu Iweka (Stanford University School of Medicine)

  • Colwyn Headley (Stanford University School of Medicine)

  • Maria Fernanda Forni (Yale University)

  • Fabian Morales Polanco (Stanford University School of Medicine)

12:45-2:00 // Fellows-Only Training Session - Chairs/Deans Networking Lunch

12:45-2:00 // Associates Flash Talks + Q&A

  • Krista Freeman (University of Pittsburgh)

  • Jared Mayers (Harvard University)

  • Nicole Perry-Hauser (Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons)

  • Xiaotang Lu (Harvard University)

  • Swati Gupta (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

  • Lydia Grmai (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)

  • Yuchuan Miao (Harvard Medical School)

  • Ahmad Nabhan (Genentech)

  • Joseph Swift (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies)

  • Coral Zhou (University of California, Berkeley)

2:00-2:15 // Break

2:15-3:15 // Panel 1: Strategies to Ace the Job Market

  • Dr. Teresa Lee (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

  • Dr. Ryan Nett (Harvard University)

  • Dr. Mohammad Rashidian (Harvard Medical School)

  • Dr. Francisco Sanchez-Rivera (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

3:15-3:30 // Break

3:30-5:15 // Fellows Science Session 2: Brain and Behavior

  • Jennifer Bussell (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)

  • Ismail Ahmed (New York University School of Medicine)

  • Johnathan Borland (University of Minnesota Medical School)

  • Anny Reyes (University of California, San Diego School of Medicine)

  • Erica Rodriguez (Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons)

5:15-5:30 // Co-Chair Closing (Program Planning)

  • Dr. Sohini Banerjee (Baylor College of Medicine)

  • Dr. Maiko Kitaoka (Whitehead Institute)

5:30-6:30 // Fellows and Associates-only Training Session - Workshop 1: Organizing Your Job Search Process

  • Dr. Jennifer Kong (University of Washington)

Welcome Address Speakers

  • Darin Latimore, MD

    Darin Latimore, MD

    Yale School of Medicine

    Deputy Dean, DEI

    ISFS Senior Advisor

  • Dean Nancy Brown, MD

    Dean Nancy Brown, MD

    Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of the Yale School of Medicine

    C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine

Keynote Speaker

  • Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III

    Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III

    President Emeritus of University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Workshop Speaker

  • Dr. Jennifer Kong

    Dr. Jennifer Kong

    Department of Biochemistry, Assistant Professor, University of Washington-Seattle

Panel Speakers

  • Dr. Teresa Lee

    Dr. Teresa Lee

    Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Dr. Mohammad Rashidian

    Dr. Mohammad Rashidian

    Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

  • Dr. Francisco Sanchez-Rivera

    Dr. Francisco Sanchez-Rivera

    Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Dr. Ryan Nett

    Dr. Ryan Nett

    Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University